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Jacobi--Tsankov manifolds which are not 2-step nilpotent

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

An algebraic curvature tensor A is said to be Jacobi-Tsankov if J(x)J(y)=J(y)J(x) for all x,y. This implies J(x)J(x)=0 for all x; necessarily A=0 in the Riemannian setting. Furthermore, this implies J(x)J(y)=0 for all x,y if the dimension is at most 13. We exhibit a 14-dimensional algebraic curvature tensor in signature (8,6) which is Jacobi--Tsankov but which has J(x)J(y) non 0 for some x,y. We determine the group of symmetries of this tensor and show that it is geometrically realizable by a wide variety of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which are geodesically complete and have vanishing scalar Weyl invariants. Some of the manifolds in the family are symmetric spaces. Some are 0-curvature homogeneous but not locally homogeneous.

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@article{arxiv.math/0609565,
  title  = {Jacobi--Tsankov manifolds which are not 2-step nilpotent},
  author = {M. Brozos-Vazquez and P. Gilkey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0609565},
  year   = {2007}
}
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